Hi Frederic! > virtio modules are more and more used in VMs and it would be nice to have > those > into the netboot and cdrom installers for powerpc on which there are not at > the > moment. I'm currently in need of these for ppc64 testing.
That's a very reasonable request and I am pretty sure there is no problem merging your patch into the debian-installer repository. One of our sparc64 users requested the same change for that architecture as well. > Once again, I hit this. On a ppc64 vm, as it's not an official arch, there no > iso > available and for installing I use netboot, but without virtio support I don't > have the network device recognized and I can't netboot. There will most likely images available in the near future. Debian Developer James Clarke has improved support in debian-installer for Ports architectures and the next upload should actually build fine on most of these architectures, including ppc64. I suggest sending your patch to the debian-boot mailing list. From my experience, trivial patches like this one usually get merged quickly. I assume it was just overlooked. Thanks, Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
